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Why capitalism needs a reboot
Thanks to the maze of intermediaries between wealth-creating citizens and the assets they collectively own, corporations have never been more divorced from their duty to serve their owners. Building on...
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Morning Coffee: Mystery of the 22-something Wall Street Christmas party...
Raucous banking Christmas parties may be consigned to the past, but this doesn’t mean it’s not possible to create your own Wall Street legend if you try hard enough. Right now, there’s quest to find...
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Salesman trades Goldman Sachs for small Asian bank, and a bigger title
If you want a quick way of getting a bigger title, it pays to move from a top bulge bracket investment bank to a smaller player in the City. So it is with Vaheesan Sinnathamby, an executive director...
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Six new UK hedge funds that could offer new job opportunities in 2017
It’s nearly Christmas and probably not the time of the year you want to be thinking about looking for a new job. But, if you want to launch your search in the New Year, it’s worth noting that a number...
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Trader who rapped his way to a job at Goldman Sachs reflects on life on Wall...
When Rehan Islam was asked about his interests during a graduate interview with Goldman Sachs, he told them straight up – he likes to rap. Rather than a raised eyebrow and a quick note on his CV, the...
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Three U.S. fintech firms that will be hiring in 2017
Fintech firms are in a battle with larger financial services companies for technology talent with an understanding of the financial services industry. These three technology companies in the U.S. are...
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Seven things you may not know about the Series 7 that can help you pass
There are over 40,000 people every year who take the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s Series 7 examination, with only two-thirds passing. The others need to tell their new boss that they won’t...
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Morning Coffee: Barclays is the latest bank to tell clients to take a hike....
If you’re a salesman dealing with smaller, low touch clients, you should be feeling scared. Investment banks are increasingly less tolerant of client relationships that aren’t helping bring in big...
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Mid-ranking Goldman Sachs ECM banker launches own corporate finance boutique
If you’re a seasoned rainmaker with a host of close client relationships gathered over decades in the industry, quitting a bulge bracket investment bank seems like a logical thing to do. The likes of...
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Reminder, this is what you’ll earn as a trader or asset manager if your job...
Frankfurt might be winning the major battle for UK-based investment banks as they contemplate which functions to move after Brexit, but Dublin is still a player. The Irish capital has already secured...
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Incredibly difficult interview questions asked by top private equity firms
Should you be one of the tiny proportion of junior investment bankers who makes it through to a private equity interview, it’s easy to assume that it’ll be the same old fit and motivational questions...
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Goldman Sachs equities MD switches to BlackRock’s ETFs team in New York
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have grown to new heights in 2016. Assets under management in ETFs have swelled to $3.445 trillion this year and they now account for nearly a half of all stocks traded in...
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This firm is competing with banks to hire data analysts, developers and even...
Would you work for a clearing house? Options Clearing Corp. (OCC), the largest equity derivatives clearing house in the world (with 14 U.S. equity options exchanges and 115 clearing member firms) is...
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Morning Coffee: When 50-year-old brokers reinvent themselves as house music...
You’re a 50-year-old former trader used to earning £1m ($1.2m) a year who suddenly finds yourself ostracised from the City over the Libor rate fixing scandal. What next? How about re-releasing a 1990s...
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Seven investment banking jobs to chase over Christmas
Looking back at 2016 already? Maybe you shouldn’t wind down just yet. While investment banks ended 2015 looking to cut costs and reduce headcount, there are still jobs cropping up in the front office...
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This is what you’ll earn in leveraged finance, restructuring, project finance...
How much can you earn outside of the ‘glamour’ roles of M&A within the investment banking division? While M&A teams and debt capital markets divisions have enjoyed a decent 2016, competition...
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Eight exit options for traders in investment banks
What to do if you’re a trader in investment banking facing potential extinction? Can’t code? You may be increasingly marginalised and open outcry traders have long moved on to other vocations. “In my...
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What I wish I knew when I joined Goldman Sachs
When I was coming out of undergrad, I didn’t have the recruiting opportunities that would lead to banking, but I did coming out of graduate school. I joined Goldman Sachs after getting my MBA from [a...
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12 ways to use the holidays to land a banking job in 2017
The festive season is upon us and banking professionals are finally taking a break from the stresses of deal-making and regulatory updates. But if you plan to look for a new banking job in 2017, don’t...
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Morning Coffee: How to mess up the most lucrative gig in town. Carl Icahn is...
Shhh, we have a plan. Never let it be said that the UK government doesn’t know what it’s doing when it comes to Brexit. Or, if you’re thinking that they need a little advice to help avoid the UK...
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